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ComradeCosmobot posted:Remember how I said that what Hillary meant by "disrupting" terrorism was voluntary self-censorship of users? Well, that may yet happen, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has revived another equally bad proposal that was killed earlier this year: compel social media outlets to report suspected terrorists to the Feds. I don't see a problem with this.
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CommieGIR posted:I can only treat this as sarcastic, because any other way would be We're talking about beating ISIS, right? Which is so large that it's essentially a state. They get tons of revenue from oil, taxes, and they run things down to the local government. But more than that, they're a caliphate, which can't exist without land to rule. Not saying *we* should do it solo. But ISIS will continue to be a threat until they no longer control territory. If we're talking about reducing the number of Islamists who hate the west worldwide to like double digits or something - good loving luck.
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yeah I don't see what's so objectionable about supporting the SDF/ISF in their quest to push ISIL back and re-secure their territory.
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The Iron Rose posted:I don't see a problem with this. It's a slippery slope from "report all suspected terrorists" to "report anyone who disagrees with my political views."
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In other news, the lecturer who said that Yale students should have room "to be a little bit obnoxious, a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive" in their choice of Halloween costume has resigned. Good riddance.
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Dec 8, 2015 18:35
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Samurai Sanders posted:Did Trump say how we should identify Muslims to keep them out, or is that just left to the imagination of his supporters (skin color, devil horns hidden under turbans, etc)? Anyone wearing this goes on a watch list:   Muhsin Muhammad is actually a Christian, his father converted to Islam and Muhsin converted to Christianity
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The Iron Rose posted:yeah I don't see what's so objectionable about supporting the SDF/ISF in their quest to push ISIL back and re-secure their territory. Because Syria is ran by a brutal dictator who gassed his own people?
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CommieGIR posted:The troll rule: If they are trolling, its not to much of a jump to say they actually believe it. There is no sarcasm, no comedy. Everything is serious business.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:We're talking about beating ISIS, right? Which is so large that it's essentially a state. They get tons of revenue from oil, taxes, and they run things down to the local government. But more than that, they're a caliphate, which can't exist without land to rule. Yeah they really fit the Montevideo Convention definition of a state: it's big! How big? THIS BIG DUDE ITS A STATE 
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Nosy_G posted:It's a slippery slope from "report all suspected terrorists" to "report anyone who disagrees with my political views." there's a pretty big difference between "kill the kuffars" and "full communism now the US is murdering brown people for oil" about the only similarity between the two statements is that they're both stupid as poo poo.
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Dec 8, 2015 18:38
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Because Syria is ran by a brutal dictator who gassed his own people? ah yes. The Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of CIA/DoD backed rebels, the Free Syrian Army, and Kurdish groups. Totally the same thing as the SAA. The Iraqi Security Forces are a disaster in the making, but support Assad they do not.
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Dec 8, 2015 18:40
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I'm just gonna start calling Trump Il Duce from now on
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Il Douchey?
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CannonFodder posted:
Hmmm an apostate....
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icantfindaname posted:I'm just gonna start calling Trump Il Duce from now on Pronounced douche-y.
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The Iron Rose posted:ah yes. The Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of CIA/DoD backed rebels, the Free Syrian Army, and Kurdish groups. Totally the same thing as the SAA. My apologies. I misread the acronym.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:My apologies. I misread the acronym. No worries, it's a bit of an alphabet soup and misreading one acronym on a comedy internet forum is not the end of the world  And that was more abrasive than it needed to be, so my apologies as well.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:Yeah they really fit the Montevideo Convention definition of a state: it's big! I mean "big" from an organizational perspective - they have a council, secretaries, and local leaders, and are basically set up to rule (from a secular perspective) any land they can grab. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/16/world/middleeast/how-isis-works.html?_r=0 So yes, it's run like a state.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:I mean "big" from an organizational perspective - they have a council, secretaries, and local leaders, and are basically set up to rule (from a secular perspective) any land they can grab. That also describes Model UN.
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The Trail of Tears sounds bad, but you can't pass judgement without having lived there.
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Trabisnikof posted:That also describes Model UN. Also the Amish. And Exxon/Mobil.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:The Trail of Tears sounds bad, but you can't pass judgement without having lived there. The Holocaust sounds pretty bad, but you never saw it so how would you know?
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MasterSlowPoke posted:The Trail of Tears sounds bad, but you can't pass judgement without having lived there. I wish somebody would ask Trump about this.
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haveblue posted:It's pretending to be a state but they don't have the infrastructure of a state, the taxes they collect are probably not at sustainable levels, and they're hamstrung by the need to wrap everything in fundamentalist Islamic dogma. We're not talking about America.
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haveblue posted:It's pretending to be a state but they don't have the infrastructure of a state, the taxes they collect are probably not at sustainable levels, and they're hamstrung by the need to wrap everything in fundamentalist Islamic dogma. Plus they banned the teaching of chemistry but want to subsist as an oil state 
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Zombie Samurai posted:I guess the term "liberal" has finally finished its long transition to "descriptor for thing I don't like". Liberal has been supplanted by "politically correct." Now you don't have to even be a liberal to be hated and it provides all kinds of neat cover for political bullshitery you could never get away with before.
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Quote of the day, "I might oversleep that day." ~ Bob Dole, on whether he'd vote for Ted Cruz if he'd the nominee.
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zoux posted:Hmmm an apostate.... Or taqqiya. He will lure Christians to their doom with his sure hands and effective downfield blocking.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In which House Republicans slowly realize that their clever reconciliation plan isn't exactly doing anything to avoid a government shutdown. "When we come to that conclusion you don't want to jam any members," McCarthy said, 
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Liberal has been supplanted by "politically correct." Now you don't have to even be a liberal to be hated and it provides all kinds of neat cover for political bullshitery you could never get away with before. You're like 15 years late on that one. Politically correct is now SJW.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:I mean "big" from an organizational perspective - they have a council, secretaries, and local leaders, and are basically set up to rule (from a secular perspective) any land they can grab. No, you meant a state (because it's in their name, lol). Just admit it was a dumb thing to say and not move your goal posts further.
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computer parts posted:You're like 15 years late on that one. Politically correct is now SJW. Maybe online, but your typical 'fire up the computer and start The Google' Uncle from Butte or Tuscon is keen on using 'PC.' They have no loving clue what an SJW is. People were, for example, calling highly decorated, highly conservative soldiers supporting the two female Rangers who passed their tests "PC" as a way to disarm them.
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Moktaro posted:"When we come to that conclusion you don't want to jam any members," McCarthy said, I love that when Ryan was elected he was championing that they were not going to do short-term funding shenanigans anymore and that wasn't the right way to govern.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Maybe online, but your typical 'fire up the computer and start The Google' Uncle from Butte or Tuscon is keen on using 'PC.' And they've been doing so for 15 years.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:No, you meant a state (because it's in their name, lol). Just admit it was a dumb thing to say and not move your goal posts further. Well, one meaning of the word is a meaningless non seq, the other supports my underlying argument wrt keeping land, but go with whatever you need to feel good about that SICK eyeroll I guess.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Okay but lemme gently caress with you here. Seriously, if you don't think Daesh is watching this and doing all the moves you're just not thinking this through.
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Moktaro posted:Seriously, if you don't think Daesh is watching this and doing all the moves you're just not thinking this through. I severely doubt they're watching anything American other than the planes overhead.
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THE BOMBINATRIX posted:Who? Calling for prohibiting all Muslims from entering or returning to the US is equally puerile as calling the person who said that a jagoff? It's not worse?
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